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Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019

Crude oil prices have dropped, turning this year's bull market into a bear market. Oil prices rallied nearly 50% from January to April this year on the back of the Fed's pause; China's stimulus measures and expectations of continued easy ...

Chief economist update: The Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019

"Anything that could go wrong will go wrong." - Murphy's law. It seems like it for us, Australians all. The latest (although dated) GDP growth figures showed that domestic economic growth slowed to its slowest pace in a decade (in the midst of the ...

Chief economist update: AUD misdirection

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 15 APR 2019

... International Monetary Fund's (IMF) 'World Economic Outlook, April' report where it shaved its world GDP growth forecast to 3.3% this year - down from the 3.5% rate predicted in January 2019 and 3.7% forecast in October 2018. The IMF "projects ...

Chief economist update: UK economy slows on Brexit woes

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019

... the greater effects from Brexit uncertainties at home." It prompted the British central bank to lower its GDP growth forecast to 1.2% this year (from the previous estimate if 1.7%). In addition, the BOE said: "CPI inflation fell to 2.1% in December and ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018

The European Central Bank (ECB) delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018

In a way, you know, I know, the world knows already about the case of the slowdown in global growth. The Organisations for Economic Development and Cooperation's (OECD) recently-released the OECD Economic Outlook and Interim Economic Outlook report ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG | WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? If we're talking about the US and China, it appears that the answer is that the immovable object (China) drops. China's Shanghai Composite index dropped to 2844.51 points from ...

Chief economist update: BOE fails market expectations

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018

... drag on growth, it is not intensifying. This has allowed the British central bank to largely maintain its GDP growth forecast of around 1.75%. But above-target inflation, rather than slowing growth is the BOE's more pressing problem. The slowing trend ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018

Bill Gross - known as the "king of bonds" - has recently dropped a bombshell, or in this case, a bond sell. The Financial Times reports that: "The Janus Henderson manager said the $2.2bn Global Unconstrained Bond Fund has taken a short position on Treasuries ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017

"Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, And I say it's all right..." - The Beatles The rally that propelled the Nikkei-225 index to its highest level last week lingers. On 11 October, Japan's benchmark equity market index rose by a mere 0.28% but its ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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